Clipping from an unmarked newspaper on March 8, 1955, reporting on Councilman Irvine Turner’s calls for Mayor Carlin to appoint an African American to the Newark Housing Authority. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Clipping from an unmarked newspaper on January 8, 1956, reporting on Councilman Irvine Turner’s call for a meeting with the Newark Police Director in response to unfair treatment in the Central Ward. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Clipping from an unmarked newspaper on February 28, 1956, reporting on Councilman Irvine Turner’s calls for a protest in Newark in solidarity with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Pamphlet distributed by the League of Women’s Voters of Newark containing information and profiles on candidates for the 1954 Municipal Election. The 1954 elections were the first to be held under Newark’s new mayor and council form of government and resulted in the election of Newark’s first African American elected official, Irvine I. Turner. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Map of Newark Wards as approved by Ward Commissioners on January 5, 1954. The original ward lines were re-drawn after African American leaders, including Tim Still and Larry Coggins, protested the boundaries that made Black voters a minority in the Central Ward and fought to have the ward lines changed. — Credit: Newark Public Library